On Oct 28, 10:23*am, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:29:37 GMT, (Richard

Casady) wrote:
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:54:01 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

It's all fly-by-wire and computer controlled. *The pilots just sit
there and do much of nothing but look around and talk. *The pilot
explained that if they had to, they could literally program the plane
to take off, reach altitude, cruise and land without having a single
hand on the controls at any time.

In the early days of aviation, two guys would be sitting side by side
at the front of the plane, and one would ask the other: " where are
we?" Later, when radio use became universal, there would be a call,
and one would ask ' Was that for us? '.Now the question is: ' What's
it doing now?.

ROTFL!!!

I recently flew in a WWII era DC-3. *With radio direction finder.

Now who the hell even knows how to use a RDF these days. *:)

They don't Tom.

Anymore they fly IFR (I follow roads)

?;^ )